Travis CI, Scaling Apps, Riak (Interview)

Open Source

Mathias Meyer shares his enthusiasm for distributed message queues, particularly Kafka and Castrel, highlighting their potential in open source projects. He is also intrigued by Zookeeper, a distributed process coordination framework, and Tony Arciari's Celluloid libraries, which he believes could enhance certain aspects of Travis CI 1. Josh Kalderimis echoes this excitement, especially for Celluloid and Sidekiq, emphasizing the need for Ruby developers to embrace threading for better concurrency models 1.

I really am impressed with celluloid and sidekick as well.

--- Josh Kalderimis

These tools are seen as pivotal in simplifying application architecture into small, consumable services 2.

   

Programming Heroes

Josh Kalderimis expresses admiration for Jose Valim, acknowledging his significant contributions to the programming community through code and mentorship. He appreciates Valim's dedication to helping others, which includes guiding him in contributing to Rails 3. Mathias Meyer, while not naming a specific hero, respects many individuals for their work and contributions.

He puts out a lot of code, but he also puts out a lot of community effort.

--- Josh Kalderimis

This respect for community involvement underscores the importance of collaboration and mentorship in open source development 3.